Refusal from your staff to go along with the company changes represents an enormous barrier. As a result, discouraged-managers need to find new ways to build support for necessary changes and stay competitive.
The operational integration of the entire Supply Chain (SC), plus the combination of the financial plans of your organisation, can influence much the upgrading of the finance function and business competitiveness.
An Integrated Business Planning (IBP) approach
The Integrated Business Planning (IBP) in your SC is intended to develop strategies, to foster foremost capabilities, and to implement process and technology solutions. Practical case studies teach us to handle resistance whilst preserving strong-working relationships when accomplishing the needed changes.
Before starting an IBP approach, answer these questions: Is the project worth doing? Define your goals, find out what is blocking them. Are those changes and steps taken the solution for you?
Implementing an IBP method is not easy, but it could turn catastrophic if you don’t convince the entire company to go on with you; the staff barrier to changes might cause your company to be left behind of competition. Commonly, the most significant obstacles come from senior leadership who frequently are reluctant to accept changes, sometimes because they are afraid of losing their jobs. A compelling Business Case could make the difference!
The Business Case should develop during the initial phases of a project.
The Business Case gives much more detailed information; the project key stakeholders should review it before being agreed, refused, cancelled, postponed, or corrected.
Business Case further investigation evaluates:
- Business obstacle or opportunity.
- Profits.
- Risks.
- Costs, including investment evaluation.
- Possible technical solutions.
- Timetables.
- The impact on operations.
- The administrative abilities to provide valuable project results.
These project problems are at the core of the Business Case
Once reviewed, these issues provide evidence of the pros and contras of the present situation and future vision for your enterprise, so that managers can decide whether the project should go forward or no.
The Business Case is needed when supply or spending on a project requires explanation. You usually require consent from the project promoter and other involved participants. For example, the IT division makes available resources, and the Finance section approves capitals.
First, you have to know how your change environment is and what are your chances to succeed.
People resist changes because they do not wholly comprehend them -figures, ideas or facts- so, they tend to paralyse. On the other hand, people could say they do not like it, and this is an emotional-fear reaction to changings. Alternatively, they might say they do not want you, or neither do they trust you nor your leadership.
This degree of denial to accept changes can appear in every area of your enterprise, but you can overcome it through education. Get help to make the changes you need and involved the entire company in your culture change.
If what you see around your enterprise makes you think it is not still ready for an IBP transformation, issues like low trust or a controlled environment, STOP and forget about it for a later time!
Further comments: evolution is at the core of successful enterprises; it represents excellent plans challenges in companies of all sizes, resulting in refusal to accept, but changing to an Integrated Business Planning method, represents excellent benefits to take your Supply Chain to the next level.
Dave Food
Prophetic Technology
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